The Leningrad Naval Base is part of the

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of the

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History

The

Naval base A naval base, navy base, or military port is a military base, where warships and naval ships are docked when they have no mission at sea or need to restock. Ships may also undergo repairs. Some naval bases are temporary homes to aircraft that usu ...

was created on the basis of Order No. 117 as of March 15, 1919 of the Baltic Sea Fleet. The Naval Forces of Petrograd were transformed by the order into the Petrograd Naval Base. The Petrograd, then the Leningrad naval base has since that time been sometimes abolished, reformed and again created. In the summer of 1919, the crews of torpedo boats ''Gavril'' and ''Azard'', and also the submarine under command scored the first successes ('kills') for the base, sinking the submarine and the destroyer HMS ''Vittoria'' of the British

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. During the

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from the headquarters of the naval educational institutions and fleet units a sea defence of Leningrad and Lake area headquarters was created. About 100,000 military seamen fought on the Leningrad front. In 1941-1944 naval vessels of this base participated in carrying out of landing operations in areas

Strelna Strelna ( rus, Стре́льна, p=ˈstrʲelʲnə) is a municipal settlement in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, about halfway between Saint Petersburg proper and Petergof, and overlooking the shore ...

, Peterhof, on

Lake Ladoga Lake Ladoga is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake located entirely in Europe, the second largest lake in Russia after Lake ...

, in the

Vyborg Vyborg (; , ; , ; , ) is a town and the administrative center of Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of Vyborg Bay, northwest of St. Petersburg, east of the Finnish capital H ...

and in the Narva gulfs. During the blockade of Leningrad the fleet provided communication of the besieged city with the country through Lake Ladoga. 1.7 million tons of cargo were transported and 1 million people were evacuated on the water line of the

Road of Life The Road of Life () was the set of ice road transport routes across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad during the Second World War. They were the only Soviet winter surface routes into the city while it was besieged by the German Army Group North und ...

alone. From October 1988 the base consisted of the: *25th Submarine Brigade (Kronshtadt, Saint Petersburg) *105th Naval Region Protection Brigade (Kronshtadt, Saint Petersburg) *166th Brigade of Constructed and Overhauled Ships (Kronshtadt, Saint Petersburg) Since 1994 the base has been part of the

Ships in 2008

Commanders

During Soviet times, the post was known as the Commandant of the Kronstadt naval fortress. * Admiral (December 1989 - September 1992) * Vice Admiral (February 1993 - August 1995) * Vice Admiral Alexander Kornilov (December 1995 - October 2002) * Vice Admiral Vladimir Kudryavtsev (October 2002 - March 2006) * Rear Admiral Alexey Tuzov (March - November 2006) * Rear Admiral Anatoly Lipinsky (November 2006 - July 2009) * Rear Admiral Aleksandr Fedotenkov (September 2009 - June 2011) * Captain Oleg Zhuravlyov (December 2011 - May 2015) * Rear Admiral Igor Smolyak (May 2015 - September 2017) * Rear Admiral Vyacheslav Rodionov (since September 2017)

References

External links

* {{Saint Peterburg Navy structures Russian and Soviet Navy bases Russian and Soviet Navy submarine bases